This year's Homecoming needs to be rescheduled. Our original date of October 2 coincides with the Softball Regionals, in which we are almost certain to participate. This conflict would prevent several of our softball players from participating in the Homecoming festivities.
The new date for Homecoming will be Thursday, October 15, the Thursday before Fall Break. We understand that having it on a Thursday isn't ideal, but after reviewing all available home game dates, this is the best option given the circumstances.
We appreciate everyone's understanding as we strive to ensure that all of our students can participate in Homecoming!
A: This is a crucial financial transparency detail. The principal amounts authorized on the ballot ($2,105,000 for Proposition 1 and $15,955,000 for Proposition 2) represent the maximum bonds that can be issued. Under Oklahoma public school finance rules, all long-term interest, underwriting fees, and standard reserve funds are already factored directly into the sinking fund schedules. This structure is designed to protect taxpayers. By incorporating these financing costs and interest directly into the long-term schedule, the district can guarantee that the tax rate never spikes above the 22.08 mills (if bond propositions 1 & 2 pass). The interest is not 'added on top' of your current tax rate; it is already included within the flat 22.08 mills for the first two years and then would later go to a flat 18.10 mills for the remaining years. Because of these financing costs over the 19-year term, the projected net funds actually available for physical construction are approximately $10,600,000 (principal only) for Proposition 2.
If you have questions, please submit them here: https://www.westville.k12.ok.us/forms/bond-faqs
We are so proud of Dayci, a senior volleyball player and proud representative of our school and community!
Dayci had a volleyball tournament at Tahlequah Sequoyah on Saturday. In between games, she represented the Cherokee Nation Youth Tribal Council, teaching others about stickball and sharing Cherokee phrases on their campus. Then, she headed back to the court to finish the tournament with her team!
We love seeing our students represent Westville and make a positive impact both on and off the court. 💜
Way to go, Dayci! We are so proud of you! 🐝👏
A: In April of 2015, Westville voters approved a 12-year bond program to construct our current 4th and 5th-grade elementary classroom building. According to our bond advisors, the final payment on this outstanding program will be made in the spring of 2027. At that exact moment, the 2015 elementary building debt is completely gone and paid in full.
However, when a new bond is approved, what does not disappear is our 6.26 millage rate baseline in the sinking fund. Maintaining this baseline rate is a standard public planning tool that preserves the district's long-term bonding capacity. If we allowed our sinking fund rate to drop all the way to zero, we would completely dismantle Westville’s borrowing power and creditworthiness. If a major physical building emergency occurred down the road—or if our community eventually decided we wanted to build a brand-new high school campus—we would be forced to ask for a massive, sudden tax rate spike to get the exact same funding. Maintaining our sinking fund baseline prevents this "tax shock" and keeps our community's financial capacity stable.
If you have questions, please submit them here: https://www.westville.k12.ok.us/forms/bond-faqs
Come walk our campuses and see our current facilities firsthand before the August 25 election.
📍 Tours begin at the Superintendent’s Office at the High School Main Entrance.
No RSVP required! We’d love to have you join us!
Q: How do school property taxes actually work? Can we keep it simple?
A: Think of property taxes as a cooperative investment in our community’s infrastructure. In Oklahoma, you are not taxed on what your home would sell for (its market value). Instead, you are taxed on a much smaller number called the Assessed Value, which is independently set by the County Assessor at about 12% of your home's total value (minus any Homestead exemptions).
• If your home has a market value of $100,000, its Assessed Value is only about $12,000.
• A 'mill' is simply a standard unit of tax equal to $1.00 of tax for every $1,000 of your property’s Assessed Value.
• On a home with a $12,000 Assessed Value, 1 mill equals exactly $12.00 per year.
If you have questions, please submit them here: https://www.westville.k12.ok.us/forms/bond-faqs
We’re kicking off our Book of the Month! Each month, we’ll feature two books—one for students and one for adults. We’d love for our Westville community to read along with us!
📖 Student Book: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
A heartwarming story about friendship, family, and finding where you belong. This is a great choice for students in 3rd–7th grade to read independently, or a wonderful story for younger students to have read to them!
There is also a 2006 film adaptation, making this a fun opportunity to compare the book and movie!
📕 Adult Book: Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
A heartwarming story about kindness, unexpected friendships, and the impact one person can have on others. Several of our high school teachers are reading this one, too!
We’d love for you to read these books along with us! If you’ve already read either one, tell us what you thought in the comments. 📚
Our goal is to encourage a love of reading for fun throughout our school and community!
Have a suggestion for next month’s Book of the Month? Let us know in the comments! 💜
Why weren’t the Vocational Agriculture and Science projects put on one proposal, with the new Gymnasium/Event Center as a separate proposal? Wouldn’t that have balanced the costs of the two proposals better?
A: While balancing the dollar amounts of the two propositions might seem logical at first glance, the School Board and administration structured the ballots based on educational and operational alignment rather than price tags. The Gymnasium/Event Center and the Vocational Agriculture expansion are fundamentally linked because they serve as the dual engines for our district’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs.
We feel strongly that the Gymnasium/Event Center and the Agriculture project belong together in Proposition 2 for several critical reasons:
-It is Far More Than a Gym: While our student-athletes and physical education classes desperately need a safe, regulation-sized court, this multipurpose facility is designed to serve our entire student body. It will act as a high-capacity hub where all of our career-tech programs can host regional competitions, leadership assemblies, and community events.
-A Dedicated FCCLA Classroom & Real-World Hospitality Training: Our Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) program will have a dedicated classroom and state-of-the-art instructional kitchen housed directly inside the new Event Center building. This strategic placement provides our students with invaluable, hands-on, real-world opportunities to plan, cater, and host major athletic tournaments, banquets, and community gatherings.
-Proximity and Career-Tech Synergy: The planned location of the new Event Center puts it in immediate proximity to both our current Vocational Agriculture building and our TSA (STEM) program spaces. This geographical grouping allows our agriculture, woodshop, and STEM students to easily utilize the massive open floor of the Event Center to host hands-on regional exhibitions, livestock grading clinics, and robotics competitions on our home campus.
The Bottom Line: Proposition 1 was strictly reserved for our core, high school academic science classrooms to address immediate reading comprehension and academic trailer replacements. Proposition 2 brings all of our hands-on vocational, agricultural, and community spaces together into one unified, heavily utilized center that benefits 100% of Westville students.
If you have questions, please submit them here: https://www.westville.k12.ok.us/forms/bond-faqs
We also have an FAQ Guide with all of the questions and answers we’ve received. This guide is updated as new questions come in, so you can find the latest information all in one place.
We love the questions and input from our community! Your questions help us make sure we’re providing the information you want and need.
📄 Find the FAQ Guide here: https://tinyurl.com/mufwrxe3
Have a question we haven’t answered yet? Submit it through our question form: https://www.westville.k12.ok.us/forms/bond-faqs
As we start the 2026-2027 school year, Westville Public Schools will be transitioning from a 1:1 Chromebook program to classroom Chromebook carts for our Middle School and High School students.
What does this mean?
Beginning this school year, students will no longer be assigned an individual Chromebook to take home. Instead, each classroom that uses Chromebooks will have a dedicated Chromebook cart with enough devices for every student during that class period. These Chromebooks will remain at school and be available for daily classroom instruction.
Why are we making this change?
• Extends the life of our devices by reducing daily transportation and wear and tear.
• Reduces lost, damaged, and forgotten Chromebooks.
• Ensures students have reliable access to technology during instruction.
• Helps the district use technology resources more efficiently.
• Encourages students to disconnect from school devices after the school day, promoting a healthier balance of screen time and more opportunities to connect with family, friends, and activities outside the classroom.
There will be limited circumstances where students may qualify to check out a Chromebook for home use, such as certain concurrent enrollment students who do not have access to a personal device.
We appreciate your partnership as we work to provide students with the technology they need during the school day while also encouraging healthy digital habits beyond the classroom. 💜💛
🧡 Orange Shirt Day Fundraiser | September 30
Orange Shirt Day is a time to remember the experiences of Indigenous children who were taken from their families and forced to attend residential schools. The orange shirt, inspired by Phyllis Webstad’s story, has become a powerful symbol of remembrance, awareness, respect, and the strength and resilience of Indigenous communities.
This year, your purchase can also make a difference right here at home. Proceeds support the Westville Scholarship Fund, helping local students pursue their education by reducing financial barriers and opening doors to new opportunities.
When you give locally, you invest in the future of our students and our community. Every contribution makes a difference. 💜
🧡 Order Deadline: September 4
Cash or Check Only - Checks should be made payable to Westville Public School.
You can mail your payment to Lisa Reed at the school or drop it off at the High School Office
Before the order is placed, Mrs. Reed will reach out to anyone who still has an outstanding payment.
👉 Order here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe4GYNr9X4NGeZhMfWmhG-iPr3Vja0szW_2vYRI9kUGEd90YQ/viewform
A: Our current "D" state academic rating is a serious concern that the Board, administration, and teachers are addressing with absolute focus, particularly in areas like reading comprehension. To improve academic outcomes, our students must have a stable, secure, and distraction-free learning environment. Currently, our high school students attend core classes in detached portable trailers that suffer from chronic HVAC failure and high humidity, creating a damp, noisy, and highly disruptive learning environment. Furthermore, having students walk outside between detached trailers in rain, freezing cold, or extreme heat breaks their instructional focus and introduces a constant campus security vulnerability. By constructing permanent, quiet, indoor-corridor classrooms in Proposition 1, we can permanently retire those trailers, providing our teachers and students with the safe, modern learning spaces required to raise reading comprehension and elevate our academic performance.
If you have questions, please submit them here: https://www.westville.k12.ok.us/forms/bond-faqs
A: Proposition 2 targets career-technical vocational training and multipurpose community event space:
1. Upgrades and remodeling of our existing vocational agricultural building. This project will reconfigure and relocate our existing woodshop to establish a brand-new adjacent classroom space, add a large workshop, construct three classrooms, and build a poultry and food science lab designed with improved accessibility to the walk-in cooler. To maximize student safety, the updated layout features large safety observation windows so instructors can clearly monitor machinery and active workshops directly from the classroom.
2. Multipurpose Event Center & Gymnasium ($12,483,130): An ADA-compliant building that will sit on our current practice field space, featuring seating for over 1,150 spectators. To maximize building footprint efficiency and keep construction costs low, classrooms are built directly beneath the bleachers. This location allows us to keep our existing gym fully intact to serve daily elementary physical activity.
If you have questions, please submit them here: https://www.westville.k12.ok.us/forms/bond-faqs
A: Proposition 1 focuses exclusively on core academics. It will construct and equip a new, permanent High School classroom building featuring four state-of-the-art science laboratories. It will be built in the open space between the west end of the High School and the Junior High building. This location creates a secure, indoor-corridor academic hallway, keeping students safely inside. Most importantly, constructing this permanent building will allow us to permanently retire and remove four detached, temporary portable trailer classrooms currently in use.
If you have questions, please submit them here: https://www.westville.k12.ok.us/forms/bond-faqs
A: In our previous school bond election, a clear majority of our neighbors—54.75%—voted in favor of the unified proposal. However, Oklahoma law requires a 60.00% supermajority approval for school bonds to pass. Following that vote, the school board listened directly to property owners who supported classroom upgrades but had reservations about athletic facilities. To honor that feedback, the Board restructured the proposal into two independent ballot questions: Proposition 1 ($2,105,000) for core science classrooms, and Proposition 2 ($15,955,000) for vocational agriculture and a multipurpose event gym. This allows voters to evaluate and vote on each set of facilities completely separately. You can vote Yes on both, No on both, or Yes on one and No on the other.
If you have questions, please submit them here: https://www.westville.k12.ok.us/forms/bond-faqs
SEE IT FOR YOURSELF. 👀
There’s a massive difference between reading about our facility needs and seeing them with your own eyes.
We’re issuing a heartfelt ALL CALL to residents of Westville, Watts, Baron, Christie, and Proctor to come walk our campuses and see the current condition of our classroom spaces firsthand.
Before you make your decision on August 25, we want you to have the opportunity to see exactly what our students and staff experience every day.
📅 CAMPUS TOURS
Every Monday, Wednesday & Friday leading up to Election Day
🕓 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM | 6:00 PM
Saturday, August 22
🕙 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
📍 Where: Tours begin at the Superintendent’s Office (Central Office)
WHAT YOU’LL SEE:
• Portable Classrooms: Step inside the detached portable classrooms where students are exposed to weather during class changes and high HVAC humidity.
• Vo-Ag Woodshop: See the overcrowded Agricultural Mechanics shop where students train with limited space and limited visibility for safety.
• Gymnasium: Experience the structural and spatial limitations of our 70+ year-old gymnasium firsthand.
No RSVP is required!
Can’t make one of the scheduled times? Call the District Office at (918) 723-3181, and we’ll happily arrange an individual tour at a time that works for you.
Don’t just read about our facilities. Come see them for yourself.
Westville residents are invited to share their thoughts about recent changes to the Town Square, sidewalks, and park.
The survey is being conducted by the OU Health Evaluation Team in partnership with TSET and IQC. Westville Public Schools is helping share the survey with the community.
Your feedback will help us understand how these changes are being used and what could be improved in the future.
The survey takes about 10–15 minutes, and responses are confidential.
Share your feedback:
🔗 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/communityprojects
Wednesday, August 19th
Picture Day is for students P3 - 12th grade!
Dress in bright colors, bring your best smile, and get ready to capture a great school-year memory! 💜
